Exhibitions
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné OkuboNovember 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025American Art Museum
An in-depth look at three trailblazing American artists of Japanese descent in the story of modernism.
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Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY BegaySeptember 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025American Indian Museum
Sublime Light celebrates more than three decades of innovation by fiber artist DY Begay and is the first retrospective of Begay’s career, showcasing 48 of her most remarkable tapestries.
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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by WomenMay 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025Renwick Gallery
Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.
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Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025Portrait Gallery
Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.
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Commissioned Portrait of Oprah WinfreyDecember 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024Portrait Gallery
Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.
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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of LifeJuly 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025Hirshhorn Museum
Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.
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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. JacksonApril 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025African Art Museum
In this exhibition, Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.
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Janet Echelman's 1.8 RenwickSeptember 18, 2020 – May 13, 2025Renwick Gallery
Echelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.
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Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy SheraldFebruary 13, 2018 – IndefinitelyPortrait Gallery
View the commissioned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, now permanently installed in the museum.
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The Struggle for JusticeFebruary 12, 2010 – PermanentPortrait Gallery
This exhibition showcases major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.
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